Toon: Ex Post Facto

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Donald Trump must be terrified that he can't win the election this November. With the coronacrisis making standing in line to vote (or volunteering as a poll worker) riskier than ever this year, many voters plan to mail it in this year. So naturally, Mr. Trump wants to make that damn near impossible.

Louis DeJoy, his lackey Postmaster General, has been removing postal equipment and mandating lousy service. He has forbidden postal workers to work overtime, decreeing that when the whistle blows, all mail should be dropped to the floor. As if more mail wouldn't be coming in the door in the morning.

Reports have come in from all over the country of mail drop boxes being carted away. Once upon a time, there were plenty of these blue boxes, some of which were scheduled to be emptied several times a day; but it has been years since one could find them anywhere except right outside the Post Office building. As photos and videos of these remaining boxes being hauled to godknowswhere started filling the internet, DeJoy announced that the confiscations would stop — only to have the boxes locked up so that nobody can use them.

New York Daily News photo

There was at least some lame excuse given for the removal and sealing of the mailboxes — people were stealing from them or dumping kitty litter in them or getting their heads stuck in them — but no explanation has been given why mail sorting machines have been removed from post offices with nothing to replace them. 

And employees forbidden to work overtime to sort the mail by hand.

Once the removal of the sorting machines was made public, DeJoy announced that in order to avoid the appearance of sabotaging the U.S. mail ahead of the election, he is suspending whatever the hell he is doing to the United States Postal Service until after November 3.

So you might want to get your Christmas cards and presents mailed in October.